Thank you Stuart, I will add a call to pvremove -ff before pvcreate. Alex. On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Alexander Lyakas wrote: > >> yes, I only had a single PV, and I did pvcreate on it, and then >> lvm_scan() from my process. >> >> So you suggest to use first pvremove and then pvcreate? Because >> pvcreate I do in any case. So pvcreate alone is not similar to >> pvremove followed by pvcreate? > > Yes, you need to pvremove first to start from scratch. > > -- > Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> > Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 > "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for > a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/